Section : Special

Councillor Ed Gibbons comments on the Sale of the Gold Bar Wastewater Treatment Plant

Ed Gibbons is the City Councillor for Ward 3, representing Edmonton’s N.E. side. His first term as City Councillor was in 2001 and he has been re-elected in 2004 and again in 2007. He is currently appointed to the Edmonton Salutes Board and the Executive Committee of Edmonton Northlands. As a councilor he not only represents the interests of people in his constituency, but also focuses on major issues concerning the well being of the city as a whole.

To the Tar Sands: An Interview with Jodie Martinson

(Jodie Martinson is an alumnus of the McGill School of Environment, where she earned her BA in environment. She also studied producing and directing at the Berkeley Digital Film Institute in California, and is currently working on a Masters of Journalism degree at the University of British Columbia. In August of 2007, Jodie strapped a camera to her bike, and along with eighteen other environmentalists, cycled over 1300 kilometers to Alberta's tar sands. She is the producer and director of "To The Tar Sands,” a film about their bike trip across Alberta and the conversations they had along the way with farmers, parents, oil industry workers, and even patrons of a small town bar. I was lucky to interview the young filmmaker about the making of the documentary, the people she spoke to, Alberta's oil-based economy, and finally, her ideas for a greener future.)

Why Fly?

In 852 A.D., there lived a strangely named man - Armen Firman. He desperately wanted to fly, so he did what seemed logical in 852 A.D.: he put on a cloak he thought would be big enough to act as a wing, took a deep breath, and jumped off of a building. Unfortunately his cloak was not sprinkled with fairy dust, nor was he Peter Pan: and so, poor Armen came crashing to the ground. It is a miracle he only sustained minor injuries.